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Through past experiences and observations of resident advisors (RAs), resident directors (RDs), and the administrative staff of the Residential Life Department, I have noticed a break in the communication between RAs and ...

My research aims to find the answers to three questions: Who is La Casa for? What is the popular understanding of La Casa’s function? and How does that affect the success of a new retention program (I-achieve)? Past research ...

“Cultural/Ethnic” RSOs employ popular social discourse on cultural appreciation and affiliation, mediated through the organization and given meaning in practice. Their very existence is based upon this discourse. How do ...

As a research institution, one of the goals of the University of Illinois is to teach its undergraduates the skills needed to succeed in their own research both in and beyond. Through the pilot research I conducted, I’ve ...

The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is both a racialized and a classed space. As an institution in which the majority of its student population is white, UIUC has had a history of racial intolerance. I discuss ...

For my project I addressed the effect that LGBT students use of Facebook has on their use of LGBT services associated with the university. I interviewed a gay student and the director of the Office of LGBT Resources, and ...

The Odyssey Project is an adult eduction program partly funded by UIUC. Most of the Odyssey Project students are returning to educational situations after some time away from formal academia. In this proposed study, I ...

In this research, I seek to understand religious diversity here at the University of Illinois. Using ethnographic methods, I propose a project to interpret the ways in which cultural expectations frame the experiences of ...

Some students in introductory chemistry classes claim to have been "lucky" to have been in a certain discussion section, indicating that although discussion sections all ought to cover the same material, there may be ...

While I do not have many concrete findings to report on with my project, the biggest points I want to reinforce are that the individuals who participate in ROTC do so for a highly diverse array of reasons and that the ...

The Study Abroad Office has a goal of nearly doubling the percentage of students who study abroad from University of Illinois. In an effort to create those figures (thus more funds for the university and credit from the ...

This research aims to discover if students are receiving what they need out of a university education. I will study how students perceive the idea of university education in relation to relevance to life beyond the university, ...

The following proposal is written to receive approval to carry out a project that would investigate how socialization changes among minority students when they come to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I will ...

My research pursues the question of how romantic relationships affect incoming freshmen; more specifically I focus on romantic relationships carried over from high school, in which both individuals in the relationship ...

Women of color have historically been active players in social movements in the United States (U.S.). Because of this, women of color are oftentimes the targets of negative media representation or absent from any form of ...

In 2005, the U.S. Lincoln Commission Report set the target of sending one million U.S. students abroad annually in a decade. The same year, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) set the goal of doubling the ...

In 2002 the Native American House was finally granted space and allotted resources to begin forming Native student services and programming, and outlined plans for the development of American Indian studies began to solidify. ...

My research intends to look at how undergraduate students who are involved with a university sustainable agriculture program conceptualize sustainability, and how this conceptualization is lived out in their daily food ...